Lovells bags SoftBank for £9bn Vodafone LBO
Lovells’ Tokyo arm has scooped the lead advisory role on Japan’s largest-ever leveraged buyout (LBO). The firm advised Japanese internet service provider SoftBank on its £9bn purchase of Vodafone’s flagging Japanese mobile telecoms business, as first revealed on www.thelawyer. com (17 March). The deal is expected to be sealed in the next few weeks, after […]